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Happy anniversary. The first day of the 2016 cycle to see more than $5 million in contributions to major presidential super PACs was one year ago — March 31, 2015. The day belonged to Right to Rise USA. The super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush‘s ill-fated campaign, with its “shock and awe” fundraising strategy…

This piece was cross-posted with Moyers & Company. Sen. Ted Cruz, effectively anointed by Jeb Bush this week as the Republican party’s last best hope to stop Donald Trump from becoming its presidential nominee, was emphatically not the standard bearer the GOP establishment had in mind at the beginning of this campaign. The brash Texas senator’s…

In the final throes of Sen. Marco Rubio‘s presidential campaign, two 2016 political mega-donors got back off the sidelines. The pair threw in $10 million more, on top of the $13 million they had already given to back other candidates, only to watch their preferred candidate lose. Again. For Hank Greenberg and Ronnie Cameron, both billionaire…

Next Tuesday could make or break some of the remaining presidential campaigns and leave us with just a handful. The race for cash from the Super Tuesday states looks very different from the race for delegates, though. Four candidates have won at least one of the dozen states with March 1 primaries or caucuses, measured…

The $103 million raised by Right to Rise USA between January and July 2015 provided the shock. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could just never bring the awe. The Bush super PAC had the resources. It had family loyalist donors who laid out as much as $10 million in contributions and did so as late as October, even after…

A report published Thursday on advertising in the presidential race underscores the starkly different ways in which the Republican candidates are running their campaigns, showing that the pro-Jeb Bush super PAC, Right to Rise USA, has sponsored more than twice as many ads across the country as the outside groups devoted exclusively to backing Sen.…

This election cycle is flush with outside spending. As of today, super PACs, social welfare 501(c)(4) groups, trade associations, unions, parties and others (corporations, individuals etc) have spent $203.4 million this cycle. By this time in 2014, they’d spent less than half that much, Center for Responsive Politics data show, and in 2012 the number was…

With the veteran Denver Broncos matching up against the youthful North Carolina Panthers at Super Bowl 50 this weekend, one story line is about the quarterback matchup: newly minted MVP Cam Newton versus Peyton Manning, a five-time winner of that honor who is rumored to be retiring after Sunday. Of course, it’s also all about…

The securities and investment industry flexed serious financial muscle in the presidential money race last year. At $102 million contributed to all candidates, current and former, and the super PACs supporting them, it led all industries tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics, new data show. Super PACs allowed the industry to gain an outsize share…

Well-known liberal and conservative political donors left the sidelines and injected tens of millions of dollars into the presidential race over the past six months. And once again, it was a tiny group of individuals and businesses who gave a great deal of the money now being deployed in the presidential nomination fights. Reports filed…

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